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Build a Godly Relationship with Your Teen

May 13, 2026

Do you ever feel like you’re losing connection with your daughter—like the conversations are shorter, the walls are higher, and you’re not sure how to lead without pushing her away? It’s frustrating and sometimes heartbreaking when you want to guide her heart but don’t know how to break through. Trina Alleyne has a simple, Christ-centered shift that can transform your relationship and help you reconnect in a meaningful, lasting way. Watch her reel to discover what it is.

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Questions and Answers About Girls’ Puberty and Adolescence

March 5, 2026

Question: Dr. Dobson, my eleven-year-old girl is physically, and otherwise, way too grown up for her age, despite my concentrated efforts to keep her a kid. I don't know how to handle her disrespectfu

Dr. Dobson Minute

The Transfer of Power

February 19, 2026

Launching our kids toward independence means matching their pace of maturity and slowly letting go.

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Coping With Adolescent Anger

January 15, 2026

Our fifteen-year-old son literally seethes with hostility at homeat his mother and meat his sistersat the world. Believe me, we have done nothing to provoke this anger, and I don't understand what has

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Teach Kids About Jesus Early and Earnestly!

November 25, 2025

What you teach your kids in the early years is critical. Researcher George Barna confirmed what we have knownthat it becomes progressively more difficult to influence children spiritually as they grow

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Adult Children Living At Home

September 1, 2025

Question: Dr. Dobson, we have a twenty-one-year-old who is still living at home. He does not want to come under our authority and he breaks all the rules we have set up as minimum standards of behavio

Dr. Dobson Minute

Preparing Your Kids to Resist Peer Pressure

June 19, 2025

Helping your children prepare now might save them from dangerous peer pressure they'll face later.

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A Man and His Ultimate Priority

April 14, 2025

It occurred first in 1969, when my book Dare to Discipline was being written. I was running at an incredible speed, working myself to death like every other man I knew. I was Superintendent of Youth for my church, and labored under a heavy speaking schedule. Eight or ten "unofficial" responsibilities were added to my full-time commitment at USC School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

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Why Your Teenager Is Irrational

March 17, 2025

There is often an irrationality associated with adolescence that can be terribly frustrating to parents. It is difficult at that time to reason your way out of conflict.